![]() When I notice it, the funnel comes closer, as if seeking me out. The dreams are never exactly the same, but always starts with the twister bearing down. So it’s not so surprising that I am a tornado dreamer. ![]() ![]() That was the day that I learned that sometimes there is nothing adults can do we are all subject to forces larger and older than ourselves. That was all that happened we were lucky. Then, as we were hunched under tables (as there was no basement), one of the windows blew in shattering glass all around. Tornado picture taken by crazy woman, by Bill Alldredge, 2008 The sound was complex, not so much like a train as I have heard, but like a thousands dogs growling into an echo chamber while hundreds of heavy bowling balls bump up against each other underwater. Once, at age 9 or 10, I actually heard a tornado as it missed our afterschool building by a few hundred feet. I grew up in Georgia, where tornados are a regular threat during the warmer months. Since I was a child, I have had nightmares of tornados. That’s when things get really interesting, because you can finally break the spell. When you realize “Ah! This is a dream!” you can participate in your mythic landscape with greater clarity and courage. These dreams are perfect opportunities for encouraging lucidity. We are under a spell, not just in our dreams, but in waking life too. However, if you keep a dream journal for longer than a few months, and especially for longer than a few years, you will find that your dream life has been sending you again and again to the same places and scenarios.Įach of us have unique repetitive dreams that we spend our lives immersed within, pounding the dream pavement, trying to remember who we are and what we are supposed to be doing. Perhaps it’s by design, but most likely it’s just an artifact of the terribleness of human memory in general. Our memory of dreaming is absolutely terrible.
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